"If you don't design a site from the ground up to be redundant and highly performing, its pretty difficult to flip a switch and make it that way later. Which is basically what Twitter has found out."
And really, that's OK.
Sites like Twitter are popping up precisely because the bar is very low to get your idea out on the 'net and compete. Sure, the cost in dollars and person hours is much higher to refactor for stability later, but would Twitter have even come into existence if that was a requirement from the start? Would its founders have considered it a worthwhile risk?
Firstly, we're not talking about any general multi-node graph.
We're talking about CPUs & AFAIK, the the traces can't cross one another..
So then the question is, is there a complete planar graph with 4 vertices? The answer is yes... and I believe that there is a planar isomorphism to K4 that arranges the vertices around the corners of a square.
Or am I misunderstanding the definition of a "hop"?
I believe that the original poster took "hop" to mean that the data passed through another core, thus tying up data pathways on that core. I cannot be sure, however, because I am not an electrical engineer.
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"If you don't design a site from the ground up to be redundant and highly performing, its pretty difficult to flip a switch and make it that way later. Which is basically what Twitter has found out."
And really, that's OK.
Sites like Twitter are popping up precisely because the bar is very low to get your idea out on the 'net and compete. Sure, the cost in dollars and person hours is much higher to refactor for stability later, but would Twitter have even come into existence if that was a requirement from the start? Would its founders have considered it a worthwhile risk?
Jason
Firstly, we're not talking about any general multi-node graph.
We're talking about CPUs & AFAIK, the the traces can't cross one another..
So then the question is, is there a complete planar graph with 4 vertices? The answer is yes... and I believe that there is a planar isomorphism to K4 that arranges the vertices around the corners of a square.
Or am I misunderstanding the definition of a "hop"?
I believe that the original poster took "hop" to mean that the data passed through another core, thus tying up data pathways on that core. I cannot be sure, however, because I am not an electrical engineer.
Jason
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